"Dracula" and "The Scarlet Letter"

"Dracula" and "The Scarlet Letter"

Ralph Nelson / Columbia Pictures; Hollywood Pictures

Not all "Dracula" adaptations were so successful. It might be best to forget Francis Ford Coppola's 1992 version, starring Gary Oldman and Winona Ryder. Oldman was on a bad streak; three years later he starred with Demi Moore in a dreadful version of Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter."

Not all "Dracula" adaptations were so successful. It might be best to forget Francis Ford Coppola's 1992 version, starring Gary Oldman and Winona Ryder. Oldman was on a bad streak; three years later he starred with Demi Moore in a dreadful version of Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter." (Ralph Nelson / Columbia Pictures; Hollywood Pictures)

Not all "Dracula" adaptations were so successful. It might be best to forget Francis Ford Coppola's 1992 version, starring Gary Oldman and Winona Ryder. Oldman was on a bad streak; three years later he starred with Demi Moore in a dreadful version of Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter."